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BioWorld Industrial Biotechnology StatReport: Immediate and Comprehensive Industry Information
SUBSIDIARY OF: The Dow Chemical Co. (see separate entry)
BUSINESS STRATEGY: Provide pest management and biotechnology products to improve the
quality of the earth's food supply and contribute to the health and quality of
life of the world's population
AGREEMENTS: Name Products Content of Agreement Date
Chlorogen Inc. use of Chlorogen's research
9/05
chloroplast technology
to produce animal
health products in plant
cell cultures
agreements
Monsanto Co. new technology options global business 1/06
and more choice in
products for farmers
agreement
MTI GmbH exclusive rights to MTI's licensing
4/06
U.S. corn product
development pipeline
agreement
Sangamo
ZFP TFs and ZFNs for research and 10/05
BioSciences Inc. plant agriculture commercial
licensing
agreement
University of development of plant- research
12/05
Melbourne made production
systems for an avian
Influenza vaccine
collaboration
RESEARCH & DEVELOPMENT: Plant-cell-produced vaccines and antibodies for animals
Improvement of crop production and delivery of improved agricultural
outputs for a multitude of food and feed uses
Improvement of plant components
Use of conventional breeding techniques and biotechnology to produce oils
low in saturated fat and trans fat free
PRODUCTS ON MARKET: Herbicides
Insecticides
Fumigants
Fungicides
Agronomic seeds and traits
Healthy oils
PRODUCTS IN DEVELOPMENT: Name Status
Concert Plant-Cell-Produced System approved
Dragon Pharmaceutical Inc.
KEY PERSONNEL: Yanlin Han; CEO
Zhanguo Weng; VP, China
Garry Wong; CFO
Maggie Deng; COO
EMPLOYEES: 1,795 employees
650 West Georgia Street, Suite 310
Vancouver V6B 4N9, Canada
Phone: (604) 669-8817; Fax: (604) 669-4243
Toll-free phone: (877) 388-DRUG (3784)
Web: www.dragonbiotech.com; E-mail: info@dragonbiotech.com
HISTORY: Founded in September 1998
Acquired Oriental Wave Holding Ltd. (1/05)
To sell part of its formulation business to C&Y Pharmaceutical Investment
Holdings Ltd. (as of 7/06)
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